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HUA

2014 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Sheng Ding

Hua, as a single Chinese woman who has been living in Tallinn for more than 20 years. This is a story about how Hua runs her life and her business here from zero to success.

Twenty-one years before, Hua made a challenging decision for herself to moved to Tallinn and start everything from zero. As the result of her hard working and charming character, she eventually owns both a massage center and a restaurant and firms her families in Tallinn. Behind success are tears and sweats. This film is about Hua and the intimate stories of her life in Tallinn.
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Happy People Don't Need Art

2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Aino M. Salmi

A poetic and a bit melancholy journey into the thoughts of an artist.

Markus is singer-song-writer, who has recently moved to Tallinn. He has a dilemma whether to get a decent job with a monthly pay - like all the ordinary people tend to do - or concentrate on his art of making music.  
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Harassination

Original title (in Estonian): "Minetus"

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Martin Haljaste
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How I Saved Africa

Original title: Kuidas ma Aafrikat päästsin

2014 | Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne

A witty and insightful portrait film by Kullar Viimne speaks not only of the clash of civilizations and the everlasting conflict of idealism and inevitability but also sympathizes with the hardships of one small Estonian girl in a big world.

Siisi is an active and attractive young woman who'd have enough energy to send Estonia's first spaceship to Mars. But instead, the urge to make the world a better place sends Siisi far away to Uganda, where she plans to open a café with the help of donators to offer work to the local young handicapped people. The start of the project is dashing but as the times goes by the more Siisi's idealism confronts the local working culture, sexual prejudice and economic inevitability because in a country that is one of the biggest coffee bean exporters only 0.6 percent ...
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In the State of Limbo

Title in Estonian: PMR

2014 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Meelis Muhu, Kristina Norman

Filmmakers Meelis Muhu and Kristina Norman observe life in Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, that is an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally recognised as a part of Moldova governed by the real Soviet order.

Transnistria is an internationally unrecognized state that has declared itself independent. It is located on the left bank of the Dniester on the territory of Moldova, next to Europe. While being located under the sphere of influence of its former "mother country" Moldova and even more being influenced by Russia, Transnistria attempts to form some kind of national identity for itself. Under the leadership of dictatorial president Igor Smirnov everything reminds of the golden era of propagandism in the Soviet Union. Charismatic leader has been building the country on the ruins of Soviet Union – the air castle exists only ...
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Inner voice

Original title: Sisekõla

2014 | Documentary, Portrait, Students film | Director: Madis Reimund

What is happening to a composer when his creation is leaving his private space to our common space.

2014 has been a special year to young composer Pärt Uusberg - the last rehearsals and concert for his Master's Thesis at Estonian Music Academy – composer’s programme “Beauty of a Night” and presentation of his choral piece “Muusika” at Estonian Song Celebration. The film is observing what is happening with the composer at times when his inner tunes are leaving his private space to our common space. It is an inwards-looking musical journey, portraying everyday beauty and anguish of a composer’s profession.
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Interview with Sulev Keedus

2014 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Peter Kollanyi

Short interview film with Sulev Keedus, Estonian film director. Sulev Keedus was born 21. juulil 1957 in Tallinn and has created several feature and documentary films. The interview was set in the directors house in Matsalu in 27th of December, 2015. The aim of the interview is to provide an overall picture of the film director’s motivations of film making and to answer for plenty of philosophical questions behind art and film.
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Ivan's Day

Original title: Ivanipäev

2014 | Feature film, Short | Director: Ivan Pavljutškov

Short film directed by Ivan Pavlyuchkov telling about a perfect summer day, love and feeling alienated in his homeland.

Two young people in love, Kadri and Ivan, go to the countryside in order to celebrate the Midsummer's Eve and to meet Kadri's parents. However, things are not going that well for Ivan, a Russian man. The perfect summer day will take an unexpected turn when Ivan finds himself in an opposition with Kadri's family and himself. First he confronts with Kadri's father and later with all the people in the village. The Midsummer's Eve becomes a true nightmare for Ivan, also endangering Kadri and Ivan's relationship.
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Kaleidoscope

Original title (in Estonian): "Kaleidoskoop"

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Kairi Kivirähk

What makes the border between reality and illusion too thin? Hanna’s imaginations are placed to reality and friends joke will make everything true. Kaleidoscope is turning and sucks Hanna inside.

All our thoughts are reality. If your dreams and reality won't match - do we have two realities or one is changing to another? There are memories, what we don't remember, but someone have told us about it and images from those talks are so lively that we feel that we really did it.
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Keelatud mängud II

2014 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Heino Maripuu